Chapter 34. Reunion

Larog was right.

I did begin to regret it after I had been bent over and beaten forty straight times on my buttocks. I was certain I would never be able to sit again in my life. Afterwards I was dragged into a cell. The moment the gates were shut, the world turned black around me.

It was several hours before I regained my consciousness but my body was numb with pain; I could not move at all. However I felt the presence of another in the room My mind was sent to instant panic, was this another round of torture? How long before the Alpha found out that I had been kidnapped?

“Lord Salmon?” at least it was not the voice of Larog but what confused me was why the voice sounded like my nephew, Claudius. I summed it up to the pain, I must be delirious.

“Father? It is me,” Claudius had grown up in my home and was like a son to me so he had always addressed me as father and I addressed him as son.

“Son? do you hunt me now?” I responded to the hallucinating